An international jewel on a side street in Vancouver beautiful British Columbia, Canada . With branches in many countries and several locations in Japan, Marutama Ra-men Restaurant food is unique in many respects. All ingredients, as the restaurant notes are made on premises. Fresh Ramen originally Chinese noodles gained popularity in Japan.

The following is kind of interesting: "Founder Tetsuya Kudo first established MARUTAMA RA-MEN back in April 1st 2001 in Kawaguchi, Japan. It was the last day before his 40 years birthday. His dream was to create the ra-men that people from all over the world could enjoy. Chicken is one of the universal foods that you can find in almost every culture.

This is how he was inspired to create MARUTAMA RA-MEN's signature creamy chicken broth (toripai tan). Since then, many people from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Canada, and Australia loves MARUTAMA RA-MEN and we wish to continue to spread MARUTAMA RA-MEN to more and more people from different background and cultures."- from Marutama Website.

Marutama chicken broth was really unique. Interestingly enough, all rest of the broth was pork based. All bowls came with pork and none with chicken. Yes, other option was to go chicken broth with all veggies.

Expect long lines in this relativity crowded restaurant. We almost felt guilty, eating because people waiting outside in the weather were literally looking at our food and us. Oh!

Was the ra-men with veggies in chicken broth was good? Certainly delicious. It was probably so authentic that if one had ra-men in Seattle, this dish would be called something different than Ra-men that we know and are crazy about

And as one sees in many restaurants toilets, there is the sign above- the American Koehler toilet- see image